Top B-Schools where you can still apply through CAT

You are advised to not only apply to B-Schools where the cut-offs are around or a little more than what you have scored, but also to some where the cut-offs are less than your score.

The cut-offs listed below are for General Category. In colleges where NC-OBC, SC and ST reservations exist, please reduce the cut-offs by 10%, 20% and 30% respectively to get the category cut-offs. Continue to read about Top B-Schools where you can still apply through CAT/XAT/CMAT

B-School

Last Date

Expected Cut-off
(Percentile)

Our Rating

Avg Sal 2017
(lacs per year)

JBIMS Mumbai (MMS/MSc Fin)

Through Mah-CET. Wait for the notification.

A++/A

18.8/16.3

SRCC (PGDBO)

31st January

Own Test (4th Mar)

B

8

IIT Bombay (Only engineers)

31st January

97.5

A+

17.6

NITIE Mumbai (PGDIM/PGDISEM)

22nd January

97/94
(92/90 in each section)

A+

16.9/15.9

IISc Bangalore (Only engineers)

March – mid

95

A

16.1

IIT Delhi (Non-engineers can also apply)

29th January

95(Profile very important)

A

16.2

IIT Kharagpur (MBA – only engineers)

30th January

93(Difficult for freshers to get in)

A

15.6

IIT Madras (Non-engineers can also apply)

29th January

94(Profile also considered)

A-

11.9

IIT Roorkee (Only engineers)

29th January

94(Profile also considered)

A-

9.2

MFC & MBE (DU)

Open

94(Profile also considered)

A-

11.7/9

IIT Kanpur (Only engineers)

29th January

92(Profile also considered)

A-

10.4

IIM Ranchi (PGDHRM)

February – mid

90 (70 in each)

A-

13.8

IMI Delhi (PGDM/HR/B&FS)

21st January

90/85/83

A-/B+/B+

12.5/10.8/12.1

(60 in each section, except PGDM QA 75%ile)

*IMT Ghaziabad / Nagpur / Hyderabad

21st January

90/70/65

A-/B-/C+

11/7.5/7

*IRMA Anand

20th January

80

A-

10.2

*MICA Ahmedabad

5th February

80

A-

12.6

*TAPMI Manipal (PGDM/Banking&Fin Ser)

May extend

85/90

B+/B

10

(lower for candidates with work-ex)

*K J Somaiya Mum (PGDM/IB/Comm/Fin Ser)

31st January

87

B+/B/B-/B-

9.2

*Fore Delhi (PGDM/IBM)

18th January

85/78

B+/B

9.4

LBSIM Delhi (PGDM/Fin)

Open

84/82

B+/B

8.5

IIT Kharagpur (MHRM – only engineers)

16th February

83

B+

9.5

BIM Tiruchirapalli

31st January

80

B+

10

*LIBA Chennai

31st January

80

B+

9

(18 %ile in VARC, 49 in DILR & 42 in QA)

UBS Chandigarh (Gen/IB/HR)

Will re-open

90/85/80

B

7.6

*Great Lakes Chennai/Gurgaon
(2 year PGDM)

25th February

85/80(Profile-based)

B/B-

9.3/9.1

FMS (BHU)

22nd January

80

B

7

NIBM Pune

20th March

80

B

10

Nirma Ahmedabad

29th January

80 (40 in each)

B

8.2

*Welingkar Mumbai / Bengaluru

26th January

80/75

B

8/7

*IFMR Chennai

5th February

75 (Profile-based)

B

8.5

BITS Pilani (Only engineers)

15th February

70 (Profile-based)

B

7.5

MDI Murshidabad

31st January

70

B

8

*IIFM Bhopal

10th February

84 (78 in each)

B-

6.4

NIT Trichy (Non-engineers can also apply)

Details Awaited

75

B-

6.5

*BIMTECH Noida

31st January

70

B-

7.5

Delhi School of Mgmt (DTU) ~(Non-engineers can also apply)

Details Awaited

70

B-

6.4

IISWBM Kolkata (MBA/MHRM)

Open

70/60

B-/C

7/5

*SDM IMD Mysore

28th February

70

B-

6.5

SIES Mumbai

Details Awaited

70

B-

6.7

*XIME Bengaluru

25th February

70

B-

6.7

*IMI Kolkata/Bhubaneswar

28th January

65

B-

6.2/7.5

NIA SOM Pune

15th March

65

B-

7

*XISS Ranchi (HRM/Others)

20th February

65/50

B-/C

8/5 or less

Christ University Bengaluru (MBA)

20th January

70

C+

*Amrita Coimbatore

31st January

65

C+

*BIMM Pune

28th January

65

C+

*Chetana Mumbai

Details Awaited

65

C+

N L Dalmia Mumbai (PGDBM)

Details Awaited

65

C+

AIM Kolkata

31st January

60

C+

*ISB&M Pune/Kolkata/Bangalore

Open

60

C+/C/C

*ITM Mumbai

31st March

60

C+

*TAPMI SOB Jaipur

Open

60

C+

Application forms for B-Schools like AIMS, Apeejay, BML Munjal, Globsyn, EMPI, Jaipuria, IBA, IFIM, IILM, Jindal, Kirloskar, NDIM, PIBM, Presidency Bengaluru, TSM Madurai, United World, Woxsen etc are also available. These B-Schools would shortlist using CAT/XAT/CMAT/MAT scores and could be available at 60 percentile or lower.

* Institutes with an asterisk before their names also accept the XAT scores.

XAT

XAT 2018 Score vs Expected Percentile

(This is based on the test conducted on 7th January 2018 and is subject to revision if the XAT authorities use normalization or any other method on account of the retest.)

Score

Percentile

33

95

30

90

27.5

85

25.5

80

24

75

All the colleges mentioned in the earlier list, which accept XAT scores will have similar cutoffs for XAT as well. There are two exceptions though –

K J Somaiya – 75%ile in XAT

LIBA – 70%ile in XAT (68 %ile in VARC, 37 in DM & 49 in QA)

The last dates to apply will also be the same except for IMT (31st January) and TAPMI (probably till after declaration of XAT results). Some more colleges may extend their last dates, however, you are advised not to wait any longer and apply asap if you are interested in any college(s).

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